Definition of slaughter

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Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..

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Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage..
Havoc :: Havoc (n.) A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.
Self-slaughter :: Self-slaughter (n.) Suicide.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..
Internecine :: Internecine (a.) Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive..
Carnage :: Carnage (n.) Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc..
Fatling :: Fatling (n.) A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food..
Voluntary :: Voluntary (v. t.) Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter..
Fatten :: Fatten (v. t.) To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The wanton slaughter of game.
Appealable :: Appealable (a.) That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter..
Bloodless :: Bloodless (a.) Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory..
Manslayer :: Manslayer (n.) One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Hecatomb :: Hecatomb (n.) A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims..
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger..
Abattoir :: Abattoir (n.) A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc..
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